CABLE BRIEFS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 30 April 1907, Page 3

CABLE BRIEFS.

Calcutta, April 28. According to the Calcutta newspaper (Indian Daily News) Hindoos and Mahoramedans in Deccan, Narayangahr, and Nymensingh are secretly arming. Serious trouble is threatened. London, April 27. A number of skilled employees from the Woolwich Arsenal have been engaged at high wages at the Eras Arsenal in Prussia. The London Corporation has voted a hundred guineas towards 1 sending a rifle team to Australia. Mr Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria, has arrived in London. Berlin, April 27. The injuries to the son of the Kaiser, Prince Guillaume-Eitel-Frederic, who fell heavily from his horse during a parade at Berlin, are not dangerous. The Imperial Disciplinary Court has reprimanded Herr von Puttkamer, formerly Governor of the Cameroons (Germany territory in West Africa), for interfering with justice, participating in trading companies, and introducing a paramour from Germany. He was fined £ SO. Sydney, April 27. It is reported that, although 100,600 rats are destroyed every year in Sydney, the number does not seem to decrease. The departure of the steamer Hawkes Bay, which has left New York for New Zealand and Australian ports, inaugurates the new service with Australasia which has been formed by the Tyser, Ger-man-Australian, and Hansa Companies.